arXiv Machine Learning July 7, 2026 By Zhuoren Li, Guizhe Jin, Ran Yu, Weiqi Zhang, Zhiwen Chen, Nan Li, Lu Xiong, Ilya Kolmanovsky, Dimitar Filev, Bo Leng, Jia Hu

A Survey of Reinforcement Learning-Based Motion Planning for Autonomous Driving: Lessons Learned from a Driving Task Perspective

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arXiv:2503. 23650v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Reinforcement learning (RL), with its ability to explore and optimize policies in complex, dynamic decision-making tasks, has emerged as a promising approach to addressing motion planning (MoP) challenges in autonomous driving (AD).

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